One thing you'll quickly learn about me is I love anything vintage....especially the 80's. I was born in 1985...so I didn't get to experience the 80's like I wish I could have. I've made up for lost time over the years. I was looking for something interesting to watch a while back and I came across this wonderful, hidden gem. Talk about underrated! It's a great coming of age movie about the pressures of sex, life, and losing your virginity, set in the 1950's. It mirrors the 50's perfectly. The groovy 50's tunes, the outfits, and just everything in general mirrored the 50's almost to perfection. My only real carp is it's pretty crass for the 50's at times and I did wonder about some of the dialog (Some of it seemed way too modern) That's just minor nit-picking and it didn't ruin the experience for me at all. I also loved a lot of the humour. I won't spoil the whole scene...but there is a hilarious scene where one of the main characters gets an erection in class. That almost had me in stitches. The performances are a lot of fun with some terrific eye candy if you're a guy like me. Catharine Mary Stewart, Kelly Preston and Jami Gertz are all gorgeous ladies with some solid acting chops. It was kinda hard to buy Jami Gertz as a nerd, as she is too gorgeous...but she pulled it off well. Doug McKeon (Our virgin hero, Jonathan) and Chris Nash ( Gene Harbrough) are good as the best friends. Doug McKeon is a loveable loser and Chris Nash had some serious shades of James Dean with his rebellious style. The ending is really well done and I was completely satisfied with it. I thought it was fairly realistic and pretty emotional. I'm admittedly, a hopeless romantic...so it got to me. I loved this movie overall. This is a gem you need to seek out as soon as possible. I dare you not to crack a smile or two while you're watching it.8.5/10

This movie is not a superficial teen coming of age high school comedy drama at all. It may seem at first it's about hooking up and coolness. As the movie progresses it gets more and more involving. By the end there are some real insights into people's characters especially Kelly Preston's character is a very real lesson for guys to distinguish between physical attraction vs what's inside. Really feel for the cool guy Eugene who gets unfairly treated. Here is a feel good ending that is not too far out. Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelly Preston are the girlfriends. Worth watching.

There is not much of a story or character development in this movie. The movie leaves you with no clear idea what the real characters of the 4-5 protagonists really are. It gives you not much of a reason to identify with any of them. We don't learn who these people really are, where and how things had started and what they had been doing with their lives aside from the fact that the nerd used to dream about the hottie and the jock is wandering around with no reason. We can forgive the poor beginning in the hopes of an interesting story would follow. Then when the story doesn't improve and becomes interesting over time, this time you would at least start to expect the movie to move faster and see where it goes. But this doesn't materialize, either. Despite the story is poor, pacing is still slow. There is not even enough conversation between the characters as you would expect in this type of movie. And the other characters aside from the 4-5 protagonists had nothing to contribute. The 50s feeling of the movie which is the background setting, drive-in movie theaters, Eisenhower and James Dean references, the classic cars, dresses, the charm of the two leading actresses and the major supporting actor and the lovely soundtrack saves the movie. SPOILERS: Especially since the writer didn't bother to build a bond between the nerd and the jock first, the jock's suddenly befriending the nerd and decide in the first day of their acquaintance to shoulder all his problems ends up appearing totally unconvincing. And even though the main theme is suggested to be that, the jock doesn't seem to teach and the nerd doesn't seem to learn and try interesting ways to get the girl to give us an interesting story. So the hottie suddenly liking the nerd and sleeping with him even without any effective effort from the nerd aside from appearing even more bumbling and goofy on the way is also unconvincing. One couldn't understand why and how the hottie would go out with the nerd here. A guy with no confidence, no looks. Not even academic record or nervous but sincere advances by him towards her which the hottie might appear to find cute like we see on many nerd&hottie movies. And it's a pity that even after sleeping with her, even though he still likes her, the nerd still couldn't get some confidence to start a relationship with her, so remains passive and so get dumped by her despite she had asked him out for the prom.

"Mischief" is an appealing, sexy period comedy set in the 1950s when mild mannered nice guy Jonathan Bellah (Doug McKeon) is hung up on high school hottie Marilyn McCauley (Kelly Preston). He befriends rebellious Gene Harbrough (Chris Nash), who in actuality is not much of a hellraiser, and Gene, just for something to do, decides he'll help Jonathan try to score, while he himself falls for the sweet Bunny Miller (Catherine Mary Stewart).While there are serious elements to be found in the movie - such as the strained relationship Gene has with his ill tempered musician father Claude (Terry O'Quinn) - it never gets too grim or melodramatic, and does go far on the likability of its main characters (and performers). In fact, if one watches this hoping for "Porky's" style raunchiness, they're going to be disappointed, as this movie never focuses too much on that aspect, although it gets appreciably risqué, and co-star Preston, gorgeous as always, supplies one very big reason to check this out as she does a brief and tantalizing bit of full frontal nudity.In fact, she and Stewart look very good throughout, as does Jami Gertz, as the awkward Rosalie who truly blossoms by the end of the movie. Some comedic misadventures make this fun; although we've seen countless scenes like this, the moment where a flustered Jonathan has to avoid detection by Marilyn's parents, after having had sex with her, still delivers a good laugh. Part of the effectiveness of this story is our ability to identify with the characters, no matter what era in which we were raised. The screenwriter, Noel Black, who'd previously done the sex comedy "Private School", does maintain that his screenplay is "somewhat" autobiographical."Mischief" does do a fine job of recreating the '50s, to be sure, with a nonstop selection of fantastic golden oldies, and heavily references the classic "Rebel Without a Cause". Supporting actors include D.W. Brown as snooty rich jerk Kenny, and Margaret Blye and Graham Jarvis as Stewarts' parents, and overall the movie is slickly done, well directed by TV veteran Mel Damski and nicely photographed. It's not particularly memorable when all is said and done, but is still pleasant enough, and entertaining enough, while it lasts.Seven out of 10.